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See what's possible.Tue, 16 Jun 2015 04:30:25 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3Adobe Launches the 2015 Release of Photoshop CC – with Major New Features for Designers (including Artboards)http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/06/adobe-launches-the-2015-release-of-photoshop-cc.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/06/adobe-launches-the-2015-release-of-photoshop-cc.html#commentsMon, 15 Jun 2015 16:00:33 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/?p=7914READ MORE]]>I am thrilled to announce the availability of the 2015 release of Photoshop CC. Twenty-five years ago, two brothers – John and Thomas Knoll – set out to create a software program to edit digital images. Today that tool is used by designers, artists, photographers, even medical professionals and engineers and many others, to create things no one could have dreamed of then. It has become a fundamental tool to enable creative people across the planet to make the world the incredibly visual place we now know.

One of our largest and most important customer groups is designers. You use the tool to create ad campaigns, web pages, apps, graphic images, product prototypes, packaging, interactive games, movie sets, iconography, typography, lithography… and so much more.

That is why we focused this version of Photoshop on delivering significant improvements to your design work from Artboards to Layer Style improvements to a Glyph panel and even an early preview of a completely new workspace customized for web, UI and app design workflows called Design Space (Preview).

These are features you specifically asked for that we have honed through hundreds of conversations with designers of all types to learn how you want Photoshop to work for you. Over the last two years, we even embedded a team member at a variety of design agencies for weeks at a time, to help us deeply understand and deliver on your top needs.

Designers, watch these videos from Paul Trani to see just some of what you’ll find in the newest update to Photoshop CC:

Linked Assets in Creative Cloud Libraries

Assets in Creative Cloud Libraries can now be linked so that when a change is made to a graphic or layer, it can update any document that uses that asset. You and your team members can update it across any Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign projects where it’s used.

Creative Cloud Libraries is a feature powered by Adobe CreativeSync, which ensures that your Photoshop files, fonts, design assets, settings, and more all instantly appear in your workflow wherever you need them. It also lets you start your creative work in one of our Creative Cloud mobile apps, and seamlessly pick it up and finish it in Photoshop on your desktop.

Introducing Adobe Stock

We have also now integrated Adobe Stock into Linked Assets and Creative Cloud Libraries. Place an Adobe Stock watermarked FPO image into your Photoshop document to see how it looks before you purchase it. When you’re ready to buy, you can purchase the image from within Photoshop and like magic (that’s what it looks like to me, anyway), the watermark is automatically removed and the file is updated to a high-resolution version that replaces the FPO image in your document.

Device Preview

Get precise and in-context previews of your mobile app and mobile web designs from Photoshop on an actual iOS device using Adobe Preview CC. This native iOS app helps you make sure your designs look good on iOS devices. The connection between Photoshop and Preview is super easy to set up, either through USB or our automatic wireless connection when on the same WiFi network.

Multiple Instances of Layer Styles

Now you can easily add multiple instances of a variety of layer styles including drop shadows, strokes, gradient overlays and many others to a layer or layer group. Gone are the days of rasterizing effects or stacking in different layer groups. Now it’s quick and easy to get the look you want.

Glyph Panel

Introducing a Glyph panel in Photoshop CC. This new panel allows you to:

Browse through all of the available glyphs in a font

View alternatives for the currently selected glyphs

Access previously inaccessible glyphs

Design Space (Preview)

Design Space is an early introduction of a new environment within Photoshop created to address the workflows of today’s web, UI and app designers. This new experience is built completely using HTML5/CSS/JS, which means it’s not only a new sleek interface but also has tuned interactions and will have new features targeted for all your design workflows in Photoshop. Your entire Photoshop Design Space experience is optimized for common web, UI and app design tasks—minimizing clicks, mouse travel, panels, dialogs and clutter. You can work on your projects in Design Space and easily jump back into standard Photoshop CC for advanced image editing while your Design Space files and state remain intact.

Design Space as a Technology Preview

With the creation of Design Space, we are doing something fundamentally different for our designer customers. For the first time ever, Photoshop is releasing a feature at the beginning of the development process, long before it is finished and shipping it as a Technology Preview. This means it is not complete. It has workflows that need more work and introduces changes to Photoshop that may tax your muscle memory. We are doing this because we want your input from the beginning, to hone it specifically for you.

As a Technology Preview, customers need to “turn it on” to use it. If you’re ready to give it a whirl, go here www.adobe.com/go/designspace-help for instructions to “turn on” Design Space as a Technology Preview in your copy of Photoshop CC. Please note that Design Space is only offered in English at this time and is not available in all countries.

We are very excited to invite you into the process to create this new workspace and have a number of different ways for you to communicate feedback, ask questions, get answers and receive regular updates from the team. Here’s how you can reach us:

Adobe Camera Raw ships Dehaze, Merge to HDR and Panorama

We know that a large portion of our customers also rely heavily on Adobe Camera Raw to perfect images non-destructively. Versions 9.0 (shipped in April) and version 9.1 (available today) includes major updates to Adobe Camera Raw.

Introducing Dehaze: Many outdoor scenes have some amount of haze due to atmospheric conditions. Dehaze is a feature for removing haze/fog from pictures. It is based on a physical model that tries to estimate the amount of light transmission and how it varies across the picture. The user can then control how much haze to remove by adjusting a slider. This feature can also be used in the other direction to increase the amount of haze.

Now you can combine your photos to produce panoramas and HDR images non-destructively in Adobe Camera Raw. The merged result is a DNG file and is saved to disk alongside the input images. Because of this, you no longer need to edit your photos before merging.

Also included in this release are:

Performance tuning that gives you a real-time Healing Brush, which means you can now see results on-the-fly when using the Healing Brush, and spectacular Patch Tool and Spot-Healing Brush results that are up to 120X faster than Photoshop CS6.

Automatic Content-Aware Fill on panoramic images

The ability to add noise to your Blur Gallery effects to get more realistic blurs

The capability to adjust the scale and rotation of the object you’re moving or area you’re extending thanks to improvements to Content-Aware Move and Content-Aware Extend

There are also lots of other optimizations and improvements, including updates to 3D and 3D printing features. For more information, visit the Photoshop page on Adobe.com here.

As a member of the Photoshop team for over ten years across numerous versions of the product, I am proud to say this release truly stands apart in its comprehensive delivery of new and improved capabilities for our designer customers.

I can’t wait to hear what you like best!

Enjoy!

Pam Clark

Director of Product Management, Photoshop

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/06/adobe-launches-the-2015-release-of-photoshop-cc.html/feed101Photoshop’s 25 Under 25 Starts with a Bang with 8 Global Phenomshttp://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/06/photoshops-25-under-25-starts-with-a-bang-with-8-global-phenoms.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/06/photoshops-25-under-25-starts-with-a-bang-with-8-global-phenoms.html#commentsThu, 11 Jun 2015 16:00:33 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/?p=7918READ MORE]]>In honor of Photoshop’s 25th Anniversary, we’ve been searching far and wide for 25 of the best visual artists under the age of 25. Four months into this celebratory year, we’ve already spotlighted eight brilliant young artists, each representing the future of digital artistry and the power of Photoshop as seen around the world. I hope you’ve all been following along as we share the art that celebrates our 25th year, but also the unique stories behind these artists, who range in age from 16 to 24 years old.

Scroll down to see what our first 8 young artists created for Photoshop’s 25th anniversary and to get a sense of their unique backgrounds and global personalities. For the latest updates and to see who’s next, follow us on Instagram at @Photoshop.

Fredy Santiago (Sugar Coated)

Ventura, CA, USA; 23 Years Old

As the first artist in our 25 Under 25, Fredy was under a lot of pressure to kick it off in a bold way (and he didn’t disappoint). “I enjoy the attempt to embrace the unknown, and celebrate the transition of youth through adulthood in my work. “ – See how Fredy’s work keeps evolving on Sugar Coated’s Behance.

Tom Anders Watkins

Lincoln, UK; 20 Years Old

Tom’s a university student, living in the UK but interning in Paris this summer because of his awesome design work. “I believe in the expression, ‘Never stand still.’ My mum always thought there was something wrong with me. I couldn’t sit still as a child. I can’t now either.” Take it all in and find Tom on Behance.

Shaivalini Kumar

Delhi, India; 23 Years Old

Shaivalini has bold dreams for the future and a desire to shape the world of design in her home country. “Design in India has been growing and my goal is to be able to contribute to the process that accelerates that growth.” Have a look at what she’s done so far and follow Shaivalini on Behance.

Bram Vanhaeren

Antwerp, Beligum; 24 Years Old

Bram’s got a superhero quality to him, leading a double life between his day job and his personal projects. He believes all people have the ability to take what they learn to the next level. “Give us the skills, teach us how to use programs, but everything else, what we do or why we do it, save that for the students and let us explore and grow. We will fail over and over again, but at least we learn and get to know ourselves.” Find Bram on Behance to follow his creative journey.

David Uzochukwu

Brussels, Beligum; 16 Years Old

At just 16 years old, David’s style is still evolving. “I’m young, and I allow myself to dream.” See what David creates from those dreams on his Behance.

Evan Raditya Pratomo (Papercaptain)

Surabaya, Indonesia; 24 Years Old

The optimism in Evan’s personality shines through in everything he does, even his take on having a defined design style. “Style is a way for people to easily categorize art, but it doesn’t have to define or limit you. When I see something really cool, I will say, Whoa! That’s wonderful, I have no idea how she/he created it. Can I make something like that?” Get to know Evan more on Behance.

Peter Tarka (Folio Art)

Warsaw, Poland; 23 Years Old

Peter Tarka (of Folio Art) understands that his style is always changing, and what makes him unique now might be different in the future. “I don’t think that I’m a unique artist; I’m still exploring different styles and want to find the one that represents my personality in the best way. Graphic design is a never ending journey for me – and that’s the thing that I love most about this industry.” More from Peter on Behance.

Zev Hoover

Massachusetts, USA; 16 Years Old

Young Zev Hoover’s personality plays out in each of his miniature self-portraits, a concept he calls Little Folk. “My conceptual self portraits exude a feeling of loneliness, the feeling I imagine a tiny human would have in a giant world. This feeling isn’t meant to be sad; it’s one of contemplation.”

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Think you could be the next artist? Submit your work on social using the hashtag #Ps25Under25 or tag your work on Behance with Ps25Under25. We’re always looking through submissions and we’ll definitely reach out if we think you’ve got what it takes.

Don’t forget to follow along on Instagram, where we’ll be announcing the next artist in our 25 Under 25: http://instagram/photoshop

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/06/photoshops-25-under-25-starts-with-a-bang-with-8-global-phenoms.html/feed5A Daring Solo Journey Down the Mekong River with a Lightroom Quality Engineerhttp://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/06/a-daring-solo-journey-down-the-mekong-river-with-a-lightroom-quality-engineer.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/06/a-daring-solo-journey-down-the-mekong-river-with-a-lightroom-quality-engineer.html#commentsTue, 02 Jun 2015 09:00:45 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/?p=7894READ MORE]]>Most of us only dream of walking away from our desk jobs and striking out on the adventure of a lifetime. We think to ourselves, “Someday, I’m just going to quit my job and buy a ticket to the most exotic place I can think of.” But Ben Warde, a long-time member of our Lightroom team and our own resident Indiana Jones, did just that. One day he booked a ticket to the other side of the world and came back two and a half years later with a catalog full of extraordinary images and some inspirational tales.

When I heard him talk about his journey down the remote Mekong River in a leaky, 20-foot wooden boat that he’d purchased from a local, I knew there’d be some amazing images. But to hear him tell the story of his adventure first-hand, filled with amazing people, harrowing rapids, up-close and personal animal encounters, and true courage in the face of the unknown…well, it blew my mind.

Be warned: don’t read any further if you’re not prepared to book a trip when you get to the end of this post. The fact that Ben had the guts to leave a fulfilling and stable job (at Adobe!) is aspirational, but his recount of the trip is downright wanderlust inducing

This group of young kids and a few men helped Ben when his boat got stuck.

Lex: How long had you been traveling? Why this specific trip to Laos?

Ben: I’d been traveling for a year and a half already, and was finding it hard to escape the more “scripted” backpacking experience. One day I sat looking at the Mekong River, probably drinking some sort of predictable tourist drink, and thought, “I should get a boat.” By the end of the next day, I had a boat, motor and supplies, all for about $300 USD.

Ben’s boat, camped and ready to rest for the night.

Though I was accustomed to traveling in a rustic fashion, this portion of the trip was going to take about six weeks, totaling around 1,100 miles in a small, 20-foot boat, completely by myself. I was used to backpacking, but not like this. All I had was the boat I was in, some food and fruit (that I would end up giving away), a Lonely Planet guide, some cash, and the hope that people would help me along the way.

Luckily, I began this unique portion of my trip with the owner of the place I was staying in, Don. He spoke a few words of English, and helped me through the first four days of the trip to learn a few phrases and make sure the boat wouldn’t sink.

For some context on the size of the boat, Ben’s is the one pulled up on the shore.

Lex: What was the most difficult part of the journey?

Ben: I decided I wanted to travel up a small tributary off of the Mekong, the Hinboun. Part of it flowed through a cave, and all of the travel books said it was a cool sight to see.

The problem was that the cave was upstream instead of down, and my little boat wasn’t equipped for such. I got a good start – and some help from a group of kids and a few men – but ultimately had to go on a bigger boat as part of a small tour to see the cave.

This leg of the trip was a definite try on my patience, but also affirmed my faith in others. I had to search often to fill up my little gas tank, even in places that seemed like they were completely in the middle of nowhere. I would be out in the jungle, floating along, almost in trouble, and somehow, someone would always come along within minutes to help. Each day was an extreme leap of faith, but the fear eventually subsided as I continued along my journey.

The Cave Along the Hinbou

Lex: What was one thing unique to Laos in that time period?

Ben: During the leg of my trip up the Hinboun, I met Un, a young man living with his parents, who graciously welcomed me into their home. One of the things that struck me as fascinating was the family’s access to electricity, despite their lack of access to other Western amenities. The houses along the river had refrigerators and TVs, but people still did their business in an outhouse and bathed in the river.

One of the nights I spent with Un and his family, we sat in the living room watching a Jackie Chan movie! The juxtaposition of rural life and technology was unique to the area and time.

A home along the River, complete with electricity lines and an outhouse.

The “Parking Lot” in Un’s neighborhood

Lex: What advice would you give to someone else looking to travel for a long period of time?

Ben: If you want to go, just go. If you think about it, every day you make a choice to either go into work or not go into work. The hardest part is conceiving that it’s possible to choose not to go into work.

I would also say that 99.9% of the people you meet are really nice and things just work out. I had a couple of days where I wasn’t sure I was going to make it down the river, but you get more confident as you go. As I traveled, the boat had some issues, but someone was always there to help me plug the leaks, and luckily I’d bought a spare blade for when the motor got caught on a fish net. Being a foreigner in Laos makes you more vulnerable, but also puts you in a position to be taken care of by other people. I was able to participate in a few holiday traditions with the groups I met, ride in the back of a truck with a bunch of goats, and even accidentally illegally enter Thailand without a visa.

Ben riding in the back of a truck with a few goats, on the way to see where Un goes to school.

Most animals would get out of the way when they saw Ben’s boat coming through.

But some didn’t.

Lex: I know folks will want to know – what kind of gear did you use?

Ben: In my 2.5 years traveling, I didn’t bring the best equipment to be honest, but it worked well for me. I used a pocket point-and-shoot Kyocera SL300R. It had two features that came in handy quite a bit: a sunlight visible screen that you could really see in full daylight, and a rotating lens. The camera allowed me to attain a level of unobtrusive photography because the lens allowed me to get candid photos with people looking straight on, even though they were standing to my right.

Lex: So WHY did you come back?

I never decided to come back – I came back to go to one of my best friend’s weddings in California. When I returned, I was offered a position on Lightroom 1.0 – a contract position for fourteen months that seemed like a great opportunity (and was). Once that was over, I worked at a start-up in California for about a year, then ended up back at Adobe working on Lightroom 3.0.

It’s hard to believe, but although traveling is a rewarding experience, I needed a break from it. It was nice to be back to sleeping in a real bed.

Near the end of the trip in Si Pan Don.

Many thanks to Ben for sitting down with me to talk about his trip, and for letting us share his inspiring story that I wish I could say was my own.

Are you an avid traveler like Ben? Or have you always wanted to be? I hope this story inspires you to finally take that trip.

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/06/a-daring-solo-journey-down-the-mekong-river-with-a-lightroom-quality-engineer.html/feed2Photoshop Mobile Apps…a Peek at What’s to Comehttp://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/05/photoshop-mobile-apps.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/05/photoshop-mobile-apps.html#commentsThu, 21 May 2015 16:00:52 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/?p=7874READ MORE]]>We’ve been very busy here at Adobe, redefining what connected mobile creativity means, both for our growing family of free mobile apps and in components for our partners that are leveraging Adobe technology via our Creative SDK. Today, I’d like to share what we’re doing to bring significant Photoshop functionality to more people in unique and powerful ways, and to extend your creative experience beyond the desktop.

Photoshop on the desktop has opened a world of unparalleled creative freedom, but as Scott Belsky, Adobe’s VP of Products, Community and Behance explained in a recent blog post of his own, bringing that kind of power to mobile presented us with some pretty daunting challenges.

One major challenge to creative freedom was, simply, access. While the phone may be your go-to for all of your daily snapshots, how do you get to those images on your tablet? And how do you access your projects or elements of your projects that reside on your desktop? This was among the first problems we set out to solve. Our new mobile apps can open files from Creative Cloud, so all of your mobile content and many of your desktop files are accessible to you on your mobile device, and the work you create while on your mobile device is accessible to you when you’re on your desktop. This means you can get to what you need, wherever you are.

Then there’s the editing challenge. We recognized that bringing core Photoshop technology to mobile would open many creative opportunities for our customers, but it had to be done right, which meant nailing the experience. To do that, we needed to distill very complex desktop workflows and features into a naturally intuitive touch environment. We’ve also sought to provide a solution that helps people achieve great results quickly. So we’ve recently focused on creating individual mobile apps that each perform core tasks, rather than provide all-in-one solutions that mirror the desktop versions of our applications.

Photoshop Mix demonstrates how we laser-focused on a traditionally complex workflow in the name of making it available to a broader group of people. With Mix, you can quickly merge multiple photos into one. What’s more, using Mix means tapping into the power of Photoshop and Adobe’s digital imaging technologies wherever you are. When you use “Auto” to adjust an image, for example, you’re leaning on Lightroom’s powerful processing engine, and when you use “Auto” in cut-out, you’re leveraging next-generation technology from our labs. And of course, you can access your files in Photoshop Mix from Creative Cloud and get the work you created with Mix back into Photoshop on your desktop, where it remains fully editable.

Photoshop Sketch was a natural for a touch-driven app as a sketching tool, but we wanted to deliver much more than a me-too illustration tool, which again, uses powerful Photoshop technology, offers access to your files, and integrates well back with Photoshop. Want to trace over a photo or translate beautiful strokes from clunky, fingertip scribbling? We’ve got you covered.

As for the access I’ve mentioned? Both Mix and Sketch stand strong on their own as tools you can use to create on your mobile devices, but opportunities increase exponentially when they communicate with their desktop partners and you can take that work further on the desktop. So Photoshop Mix passes full resolution, layered and masked PSD files to Photoshop CC and Sketch can also send PSDs to Photoshop CC or rich, scalable vectors to Illustrator CC.

One thing missing from our initial mobile offerings was a real solution for designers, especially those needing to work with type. We solved this in April with Adobe Comp CC, which couples intuitive gestures, powerful fonts from Typekit, and access to assets stored in Creative Cloud to provide an unrivaled mobile brainstorming and layout work surface. If you have Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC or InDesign CC on the desktop, Comp can send full resolution, native files to those.

We’ve also created apps we refer to as “capture apps.” These apps extend your Photoshop desktop experience by helping you capture inspiration wherever you are and easily bring it into Adobe desktop apps.

Adobe Shape CC, for example, is fast becoming one of my favorite apps. Whether you want to convert a napkin sketch into a rich illustration, a found object into a logo, or just reimagine an existing photo – it’s as easy as pressing a button.

Adobe Brush CC converts captured content into one-of-a-kind custom brushes and Adobe Color CC extracts colors themes from anything you point it at. And thanks to some new technology we cooked up, all of this content is immediately available to you on the desktop. Even better, your one-of-a-kind brush captures appear in Photoshop Sketch as soon as you capture them.

But this is only a fraction of what we’re doing when it comes to mobile. We certainly aren’t sitting still, and there are many more workflows that we still want to bring to mobile. As just one example, I’m proud to announce that we’re actively pursuing a serious retouching solution for mobile, it’s called Project Rigel and is expected to be available in late 2015.

Helping you find success quickly means giving you the right tools for the job and the very best technology and access. When we introduced Photoshop Touch several years ago, it was an all-in-one solution that mirrored the desktop version of Photoshop. But today, we believe that our new mobile solutions, when connected together and to the desktop, vastly expand creative possibilities.

Sometimes building for the future means we need to make hard choices and today I am also announcing that we are discontinuing Photoshop Touch. For those of you who have been using Photoshop Touch, thank you and please continue creating amazing work with it; while it will no longer be available in stores as of May 28th and we won’t ship further updates, it will remain completely functional on your devices for the foreseeable future. For further information on how this change could impact your workflow, please visit here.

Photoshop Touch was available across platforms and so I’d like to leave all of you on Android with some good news – we’re actively developing new mobile applications for Android and will share those with you very soon.

I couldn’t be more excited for current Creative Cloud members as well as those who are just discovering what Creative Cloud and our mobile apps can help you create. You now have more ways than ever to be creative, and your creativity is no longer tied to a desk. With a comprehensive collection of free, cloud-connected applications at your disposal, there’s no limit to what you can achieve.

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/05/photoshop-mobile-apps.html/feed18The CC Photography Plan Keeps Getting Better: All New Lightroom CC and More Available Today!http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/04/the-cc-photography-plan-keeps-getting_better.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/04/the-cc-photography-plan-keeps-getting_better.html#commentsTue, 21 Apr 2015 11:00:19 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/?p=7859READ MORE]]>There’s no doubt about it – the roles of phones and tablets are growing, and your photography needs are getting increasingly more complex. At Adobe, we’ve continued making updates to meet the changing needs of your workflow through our Creative Cloud Photography plan – giving you the magic of Photoshop and the imaging power of Lightroom across desktop, mobile devices and web, so you can bring out the best in your photographs from wherever you are. We’ve listened to your feedback – we heard you on the need for value and we delivered updates to desktop, web, and mobile products on both iOS and Android devices. We’ve created an easy way for you to view synced photos in web galleries, and just two weeks ago announced Slate, allowing you to turn your images into a beautiful visual story in minutes.

Today, we’re excited to release the latest update: the release of Lightroom CC 2015 and updates to all of our mobile apps. Here’s a brief description of some of our favorite new features, available today:

Lightroom CC

HDR Merge: Create natural-looking or surreal images from extremely high-contrast scenes. Using HDR merge, you can easily combine multiple shots taken with different exposure settings into a single high dynamic range image.

Performance Improvements: Get more done, faster. Lightroom takes advantage of compatible graphics processors to boost its overall speed up to 10 times faster, especially in the Develop module.

Facial Recognition: Easily find and organize photos of family and friends with new Facial Recognition features in Lightroom CC.

Advanced video slideshows: Combine still images, video and music with professional effects like pan and zoom.

Improved web galleries: Showcase your work in more elegant, engaging and interactive web galleries. New HTML5-compatible gallery templates work with the widest range of desktop and mobile browsers.

Filter Brush: Precisely control which parts of your image are affected by the Graduated or Radial filters. Now you can use a brush to edit the filter’s mask, adding or subtracting filter effects wherever you want.

Lightroom on mobile

Android Tablet Support: Previously only available on Android phones, now you can sync, edit, organize and share on Android tablets as well.

Android SD card support: You can now specify local storage to an SD card rather than internal device storage.

Native DNG support on Android: Android 5.0 (aka “Lollipop”) now allows you to shoot photos in raw, and saves them as DNG files. You can now import those DNG files directly from you Android device.

Improved crop experience on iOS: We simplified the number of tiles in our crop UI so you can now easily find aspect ratios, and we added an auto-straighten function.

Sharing and storytelling options

Support for more apps and devices: Lightroom is now more easily integrated with other Adobe apps like Adobe Voice and Slate on your iPad. You can also now use Lightroom on more devices, including Android tablets in addition to iOS phones, tablets and Android phones.

If you have Lightroom as part of a Creative Cloud subscription, you already have access to this update. You can download right away, with no additional cost.

All of these updates are available now and available as part of the CC Photography plan for $9.99/mo USD

You can also purchase a traditional license of Lightroom 6 for $149 (for those new to Lightroom) and $79 (for previous Lightroom customers). Please note that this version of Lightroom does not have access to any of the mobile or web workflows supported by Creative Cloud, and only Creative Cloud members receive ongoing feature updates.

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/04/the-cc-photography-plan-keeps-getting_better.html/feed97Happy 25th Anniversary Photoshop!http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/02/celebrating-25-years-of-photoshop.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/02/celebrating-25-years-of-photoshop.html#commentsThu, 19 Feb 2015 00:57:36 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/?p=7821READ MORE]]>In 1987 people were rocking out to Walk Like an Egyptian, falling in love with The Princess Bride, and were just meeting the Tanner Family from Full House. It was in this pre-digital world—a world almost impossible for us to imagine now—that Thomas Knoll dreamed up and created Display, a pixel imaging program. Display was purchased by the then nascent software company Adobe, and in 1990—25 years ago—was released under a new, now famous name. “Photoshop” was born.

Today, the digital imaging revolution that Photoshop started is so pervasive that remembering a time before it existed takes some work. So it’s with great pleasure, on Photoshop’s 25th anniversary, that we look back to the simpler, pre-millennial world into which it was born, not to celebrate the past but to recognize what an awesome transformation our world has undergone in such a short amount of time. Hallmarks like today remind us of what is possible when human artistry and imagination unite with technology to make our dreams real before our eyes. In the case of Photoshop, making dreams visible is the product’s literal promise.

2015 will be a year of celebrating, not where Photoshop has been, but where Photoshop is going and the people that make it possible. Below is our “bucket list” for the year, events we invite you to join us in as we look ahead to the next 25 years of Photoshop, and the future that we will co-create together.

To follow along with our anniversary celebration keep an eye on #Photoshop25 or check in with us here.

On behalf of the whole team, a hearty thank you to the creative community and to the world for supporting the evolution of Photoshop. Here’s to the next quarter century!

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/02/celebrating-25-years-of-photoshop.html/feed14425 Under 25: The Search is on for 25 of the Most Creative Visual Artists Under 25http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/01/25-under-25-the-search-is-on-for-25-of-the-most-creative-visual-artists-under-25.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/01/25-under-25-the-search-is-on-for-25-of-the-most-creative-visual-artists-under-25.html#commentsThu, 29 Jan 2015 16:30:29 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/?p=7814READ MORE]]>As part of my job, I have the unique privilege of seeing jaw-dropping and sometimes life-changing artwork cross my desk on a routine basis. Here at Adobe we’re constantly amazed by the creative talent of our customers, especially the young, up-and-comers – the next-gen artists. That’s why to celebrate Photoshop’s upcoming 25th anniversary, we’re officially launching a search for 25 of the most creative visual artists under the age of 25!

In the coming months, we’ll be scouring the globe, turning over every rock, to find artists that represent the future of Photoshop. But we need your help. We’re looking for the most innovative, forward-looking work out there that will show the world what the next generation of Photoshop artists is made of.

These 25 game changers will be from all parts of the world, and their art will represent their diverse cultures, life experiences, points of view and dreams…all brought to life with the help of Photoshop. In honor of our 25th year, each artist will be creating an original piece of art to celebrate the milestone. Over the course of the next year, each of the 25 will stage a two week takeover of our brand new Photoshop Instagram channel sharing their story and their art with the world.

Could this be you or someone you know? Tell us about your passion and you could be part of this prestigious list of young artists.

Here’s how to make sure we see your work:

Create a Behance profile if you don’t already have one

Go to Behance.net

Enter your Adobe ID or get an Adobe ID

Add a project to your profile

Tag the project with “Ps25Under25” in the Project Tags section in “Step 3: Settings when uploading your project”

Make sure you publish your project

What we’re looking for:

Women and men under the age of 25

Artists who use Photoshop somewhere in their creative process

Visionaries with the ability to inspire the masses through their unique artistic perspective

A proven ability to create visually stunning work

We’re monitoring projects that are tagged and will be in touch if we have any questions. Follow our Behance Collection to keep up with our progress. We can’t wait to see all of the cool work the Photoshop community is capable of.

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/01/25-under-25-the-search-is-on-for-25-of-the-most-creative-visual-artists-under-25.html/feed109Life, Work, and Photography…from the Window Seathttp://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/01/life-work-and-photographyfrom-the-window-seat.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/01/life-work-and-photographyfrom-the-window-seat.html#commentsWed, 21 Jan 2015 15:30:54 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/?p=7798READ MORE]]>My name is Julieanne Kost and I’m the Principal Evangelist for Lightroom and Photoshop at Adobe. Some of you may know me from the tips and tutorials that I’ve created or perhaps a few of you know me because of my photography and digital illustrations. If we’ve never met, well, hi.

I travel about 250 days a year, and, for better or worse, I’m required to fly to get to almost all of the places I visit. As a result, I spend a great deal of time on airplanes in those tiny, cramped seats with little to do but try to work or read.

Shooting photographs allows me to stay sane during those long flights, because what most people don’t know is that I have a bit of a handicap when it comes to flying; I am scared to death of it. I’ve always been afraid of flying, but during one particular 20-minute bout of turbulence in the middle of the Andes years ago, I found myself white-knuckled, fingers embedded in the hard plastic arm-rests. It was in that instant that the camera became a comforting buffer between the reality of that moment and my own thoughts.

Newark to Omaha, 2006

I discovered that shooting pictures out of the plane window allowed me to view the scenery in a different context: not as the earth some 30,000 feet below, but as an immense, constantly scrolling image. As long as I could see the world as an image through an eyepiece rather than as a harsh, physical reality, the threat was less real. I became a spectator – an observer of the scene rather than part of it.

Aerial landscape photography wasn’t something I’d ever intended to do – it was a natural outgrowth of who I am (someone who loves to capture photographs of things that other people aren’t paying attention to) and what I was doing at the time (trying to find a creative outlet in the midst of cab rides, hotel rooms, and convention centers). It seems unbelievable that I’ve been photographing out of plane windows for more than a decade, but sometimes you choose your personal projects, and sometimes they choose you.

It’s interesting to me that none of my fellow passengers have ever asked me what I’m doing when I shoot photos out the window. I’m not sure if they think it’s a waste of time (because they’ve tried it and their images didn’t turn out), if they’re afraid to ask, or if they think it’s simply my first time on a plane and I’m giddy about sharing the experience and some images to my favorite social media site. Regardless, I love knowing that what they see and what I’m capturing are often completely different things.

San Jose to Denver, 2002

As my enthusiasm for aerial photography grows, I’ve continued to try new approaches to it. Instead of limiting myself to taking photographs on commercial flights, I recently hired a helicopter as well as a small plane to see what the difference would make in my photos. These flights made me feel a bit more pressure to make something happen as opposed to let something happen – probably a reaction to the narrow window of time I had to photograph. But despite my fear of flying, these flights were some of the most memorable minutes of my life and definitely fulfilled my goal to “try something new every year.”

More than anything, this project has validated for me that the full execution of an idea is worthwhile. Many people have taken a picture through an airplane window, but, as with so many other creative ventures, few have chosen to focus on the subject passionately for more than a decade. In that length of time, you develop an eye, a knack, and a craving for more. And no matter how much I travel, the window remains an undeniable source of inspiration that I can’t ignore.

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/01/life-work-and-photographyfrom-the-window-seat.html/feed133.2 Million Minutes and Counting: The Photoshop Playbook Indexhttp://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/01/3-2-million-minutes-and-counting-the-photoshop-playbook-index.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/01/3-2-million-minutes-and-counting-the-photoshop-playbook-index.html#commentsWed, 07 Jan 2015 15:00:01 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/?p=7793READ MORE]]>As the Photoshop team heads in to 2015, we’ve got a lot to celebrate, but not without first reflecting on 2014. This past year we released fifty episodes of the Photoshop Playbook, our video tutorial series answering some of the most frequently asked questions on our social channels and in the forums.

This series was one of the highlights of my year. I loved showing you new ways of doing things in Photoshop, helping you to work faster or better than you were already. Some of you even learned completely new skills, and it was fun to show you new techniques to “add to your Playbook.”

In total, the fifty episodes of the Photoshop Playbook were viewed over 1.3 million times, with about 3.2 million minutes watched. If you string all of those minutes together, that adds up to six years time spent watching the Photoshop Playbook. Wow!

In case you missed some of the episodes, embedded below you’ll find five of the most popular videos in the series, followed by the full index of all fifty episodes of the Photoshop Playbook. Bookmark this page and come back to it to brush up on the basics and to learn entirely new skills.

Thanks to Julieanne Kost for guest hosting a few of the episodes and thanks again to you for watching. We hope you always keep learning.

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2015/01/3-2-million-minutes-and-counting-the-photoshop-playbook-index.html/feed10Sharing Creative Cloud Libraries in Photoshophttp://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2014/12/sharing-creative-cloud-libraries-in-photoshop.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2014/12/sharing-creative-cloud-libraries-in-photoshop.html#commentsThu, 11 Dec 2014 16:00:43 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/?p=7775READ MORE]]>Just two months ago, we introduced the Libraries panel to Photoshop CC 2014. Libraries help you Store your favorite things, Use them over and over, and as of today, you can now Share your Libraries with your team.

STORE

Libraries can save all types of content—that specific color, the client’s logo or watermark, or your favorite style of text. Just grab any content from your design and drag it into the panel. Libraries can store one or more layers or groups, in addition to Smart Objects. Libraries can also extract colors, text styles, and even layer effects like drop shadows by simply clicking on one of the buttons in the Libraries panel.

You can create as many Libraries as you want: one for each project, type of project, or even just your favorites.

Once you store something in Libraries, you can access it anywhere. Everything is automatically (and securely) synced to Creative Cloud.

USE

Using content from Libraries is as simple as clicking on the color or dragging the object onto the canvas. A single click applies the color, text style, or layer effect to the selected layer. To edit the color or graphic, just double click it. You can also rename it to something helpful, like “The official color” or “Body text.”

SHARE

With your Libraries content synced to Creative Cloud, it’s now easy to give your co-workers access to the same set of great content. No more emailing out-of-date template PSDs, no more mismatched designs because someone used the wrong color or drop shadow.

To share a Library, just click on the Collaborate menu item and enter the email addresses of the people you want to share with. Once they accept the invitation, they will have access to that library, just like shared file folders.

Libraries are an important part of the future of Creative Cloud, enabling you to work with others more seamlessly than ever before. Give it a try, and let us know what you think! We’d love to hear your feedback in the comments below, or on feedback.photoshop.com.